heid

heid

1. (Northern) Alternative form of heed

heid f (definite singular heidi, indefinite plural heidar, definite plural heidarne or heidane)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of hei

From heiðr (“brightness, honor, worth”).

heid

1. gleaming

From Middle English heid, heifd, northern forms of heed, heved, from Old English hēafod (compare English head), from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (compare Dutch hoofd, German Haupt, Swedish huvud), from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *káput- (“head”) (compare Latin caput), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *kapōlo (“head, bowl”).

• IPA^(key): /hid/

heid (plural heids)

1. head

• pow

heid

1. partitive of hö